metalheadz

you know, if there's one thing in this world that my blog really *isn't* trying to promote, it's...the inflation of the male phallus (by anything more than one's one body) and so, i have yes, dear readers in the flesh, changed my comments section.

Did i mention that i've started writing for associated press? they just launched a new, mostly-web oriented wire service for all types of reporting - including cultural reporting - and I've written two pieces for them.

The first was on DJ Radar's Scratch Concerto at Carnegie Hall, and the second was Roadrunner Records Metal All-Stars, which was actually something of a dream assignment for me - spend a day with a whole room full of high profile, hard touring dudes who never get to see each other and just let the tape roll.

I was really impressed with how charming and cordial everyone was, and was a little overwhelmed by dudes like Dino from Fear Factory and Dez from Coal Chamber, two really sweet, smart guys who've basically been on tour for ten years straight and who had such an amazing passion for music and musicianship (with like zero degree of cynicism about these things - and able to tell the difference between them and 'the biz,' at which they have been bigger winners than most but still certainly not, as they put it "at Slipknot stature" I mean, imagine that being the bar YOU'LL never surpass. geeezzz).